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slope ahead of the upper or middle portion thereof; the excep- 

 tion being where the upper part of the slope can be logged later 

 without touching the lower portion and, hence, without interfering 

 with reproduction already secured on the lower slopes; always 

 provided that by logging the lower part first the upper stands 

 are not thereby exposed to wind-fall. 



When logging is completed, the remaining brush is usually 

 scattered as uniformly as may be over the cutting area, in order 

 to prevent cattle grazing on the area during the first stages of the 

 young growth. 



After cutting the initial strip no adjacent cutting is done, as 

 a rule, for at least six years — that is until the regeneration of 

 the initial strip is assured. (This of course requires a large num- 

 ber of "points of attack" and results in the somewhat "chopped 

 up" appearance of the Bavarian Mountain-sides.) Then the ad- 

 joining strip on the windward side — i.e. towards the West, South- 

 west or South, usually is cut. Thus the strip cuttings progress 

 in the direction from which come the prevailing wind currents. 



A diagrammatic cutting of a north slope a quarter of a mile 

 wide would, therefore, begin at the East side and move westward, 

 a strip at a time, every six years until at the end of the 54th 

 year, the entire area would have been cut over and, theoretically, 

 the whole regenerated at the end of the 60th year. 



Actually and obviously no such schematic method is possible 

 of application, especially in a mountainous country. For ex- 

 ample, on sunny, southern slopes the remaining stand must fur- 

 nish protection to the cut-over strip to prevent drying out of the 

 soil. Here, therefore, the strips do not extend up and down the 

 slope but horizontally or diagonally across the slope. 



The three factors which determine the degree of actual ap- 

 plication of tl:e schematic method of cutting are the most eco- 

 nomic method of logging, the maintenance of the soil's producti- 

 vity and the securing of reproduction. The last is, plainly, the 

 most important and hence the rule that the adjacent strip can 

 not be cut until regeneration of the initial strip is assured. 



The Bavarian aims to secure this regeneration' just as far as 

 possible by natural means. Therefore on the cutting areas, all 

 the small stufT, and especially advance reproduction of beech and 

 fir is left as "shelterwood" and as a nucleus for the future stand- 



